Sending attachments as icons only

Hi
Fairly new to apple so I may be missing something very obvious but...I wonder if anyone has any ideas on how I can make sure any attachments I send remain as icons rather than the attachment being open when it is received. Some people I have sent attachments to have said that as soon as the message is recieved the attachment is open.
Is there a way of ensuring the attachments are received as icons and then they can be opened by the recipient?
I have clicked on the "view as icon" before I send the message but this doesn't seem to help.
Thanks.

How a recipient's e-mail program receives and displays attachments is entirely up to the recipient. There's not much you can do other than to ask your recipients to configure their own e-mail programs to their liking.

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http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20130223000057486
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String Body,
String ErrorMessage[],
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EOL CONSTANT STRING(2) := CHR(13) || CHR(10);
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BccRecipient IN STRING DEFAULT '',
Subject IN STRING DEFAULT '',
Body IN STRING DEFAULT '',
ErrorMessage OUT STRING,
Attachments IN ATTACHMENTS_LIST DEFAULT NULL)
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Recipient IN STRING,
CcRecipient IN STRING,
BccRecipient IN STRING,
Subject IN STRING,
Body IN STRING,
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Sender IN STRING,
Recipient IN STRING,
CcRecipient IN STRING,
BccRecipient IN STRING,
Subject IN STRING,
Body IN STRING,
ErrorMessage OUT STRING,
Attachments IN ATTACHMENTS_LIST) RETURN NUMBER IS
AttachmentList VARCHAR2(4000) := '';
AttachmentTypeList VARCHAR2(2000) := '';
BEGIN
ParseAttachment(Attachments,
AttachmentList);
RETURN JSendMail(SMTPServerName,
Sender,
Recipient,
CcRecipient,
BccRecipient,
Subject,
Body,
ErrorMessage,
AttachmentList);
END SendMail;
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-- thus, no PL/SQL implementation is needed;
FUNCTION JSendMail(SMTPServerName IN STRING,
Sender IN STRING,
Recipient IN STRING,
CcRecipient IN STRING,
BccRecipient IN STRING,
Subject IN STRING,
Body IN STRING,
ErrorMessage OUT STRING,
Attachments IN STRING) RETURN NUMBER IS
LANGUAGE JAVA
NAME 'SendMail.Send(java.lang.String,
java.lang.String,
java.lang.String,
java.lang.String,
java.lang.String,
java.lang.String,
java.lang.String,
java.lang.String[],
java.lang.String) return int';
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var ErrorStatus NUMBER;
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'/tmp/sqlnet.log.Z'
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print
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